How many virgins in muslim heaven

Healthy Living. All India World Sports Weird. INDIA 3 years ago. The Conversation 0 Start a conversation, not a fire. Post with kindness. Post Comment. Play Quiz. Powered By. What of the rewards in paradise? The Islamic paradise is described in great sensual detail in the Koran and the Traditions; for instance, Koran sura 56 verses 12 ; sura 55 verses ; sura 76 verses I shall quote the celebrated Penguin translation by NJ Dawood of sura 56 verses "They shall recline on jewelled couches face to face, and there shall wait on them immortal youths with bowls and ewers and a cup of purest wine that will neither pain their heads nor take away their reason ; with fruits of their own choice and flesh of fowls that they relish.

And theirs shall be the dark-eyed houris, chaste as hidden pearls: a guerdon for their deeds We created the houris and made them virgins, loving companions for those on the right hand One should note that most translations, even those by Muslims themselves such as A Yusuf Ali, and the British Muslim Marmaduke Pickthall, translate the Arabic plural word Abkarun as virgins, as do well-known lexicons such the one by John Penrice.

I emphasise this fact since many pudic and embarrassed Muslims claim there has been a mistranslation, that "virgins" should be replaced by "angels".

In sura 55 verses , Dawood translates the Arabic word " hur " as "virgins", and the context makes clear that virgin is the appropriate translation: "Dark-eyed virgins sheltered in their tents which of your Lord's blessings would you deny? Two points need to be noted. First, there is no mention anywhere in the Koran of the actual number of virgins available in paradise, and second, the dark-eyed damsels are available for all Muslims, not just martyrs.

The same hadith is also quoted by Ibn Kathir died CE in his Koranic commentary Tafsir of Surah Al-Rahman 55 , verse "The Prophet Muhammad was heard saying: 'The smallest reward for the people of paradise is an abode where there are 80, servants and 72 wives, over which stands a dome decorated with pearls, aquamarine, and ruby, as wide as the distance from Al-Jabiyyah [a Damascus suburb] to Sana'a [Yemen]'.

Modern apologists of Islam try to downplay the evident materialism and sexual implications of such descriptions, but, as the Encyclopaedia of Islam says, even orthodox Muslim theologians such as al Ghazali died CE and Al-Ash'ari died CE have "admitted sensual pleasures into paradise". The sensual pleasures are graphically elaborated by Al-Suyuti died , Koranic commentator and polymath.

He wrote: "Each time we sleep with a houri we find her virgin. Besides, the penis of the Elected never softens. Google Scholar. Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion , trans. James Strachey New York: W. Norton, , Donald B. Stephen G. Stephen L. See, e. Brill, , — Brill, , Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C. Bosworth, E. Heinrichs Leiden: E. Samuel Z.